Lethal Vehicle

In Sweden, the motor viecles are  tightly regulated by laws and clauses but there is a vehicle that is completely exempt from all laws. av Jan Silèn

Det are vehicles that may be driven legally on Swedish roads which need not have insurance, approved lights, reflectors, brake lights or turn signals.

 

 

 

  Emergency stop or brakes in 40 mph speed? Nooo

They do not need to be inspected, were not detected or estimated and there is no age limit for driving these vehicles on the road. Furthermore, there are no requirements for brakes, steering or emergency stop.

The vehicles have a top speed of 40 mph, weigh between 1000-2000 pounds, and manouverability is alittle so so.   No requirements for approved tread on the tires. No signal is required. Sounds interesting? Unfortunately, it is very easy to get full throttle lock of these vehicles and then usually both control and brakes go down.

It had been snowing and I had been to fetch the tractor and would be home and shovel when I meet one of these vehicles on the road. Of old experience  I slow down and almost stops the tractor when we meet, but when the vehicle is to pass the tractor so it got throttle  full lock to the right. Drive gear is always engaged and the vehicle drives over the snow into the ditch and up the slope on the side of the road, despite abundant dubbed as slipping and the vehicle from sliding into the ditch and back on the road.

The driver has a tough job to hold on to the trailer, yes, the vast majority have a hitched trailer, but some just run with the engine. The vehicle is now running at full uncontrolled speed on the wrong side of the road and follow a trail straight into the garage where it will stop. When I drive past the open garage doors so glaring Sven hard on me.

Unimaginable

För me it is absolutely unbelievable that these vehicles may be driven on public roads.

When questioning it a horse owner to get the answer that “the horses were on the road before the cars.”
If We motorists have turned off the car and parked at the road and a runaway horse running on it and injure themselves, it is the car owner’s fault, at least according to horse owners. Fortunately this law os seldom applied.

I had a workmate who was working on the trot. Once when he had been on the racetrack for training and going to the stables as it happened, it got full throttle lock  and steering and brakes disappeared.

The horse takes a jump up on the hood of a car and jumps to the next hood and third hood with a trailer coupled with the driver sitting on the cart.

Hoods and fenders damaged three cars, do you think he became liable to pay compensation? Nah, it was the cars fault. Be careful when you encounter these vehicles along the road. Usually the pilopt  starts waving his arms and wagging his fists long before the meeting.

Another workmate who also was doing trotting horses had met a new fiance and at the Christmas decorations they would they take a romantic sleigh ride with bells after the horse.

1,5 miles before the Christmas decorations street throttle goes full blow and sled cords and driver and girl fall out. Driver refuses to let go of the reins and get to the final stop on the rig. It would have been nice if the pilot come trailing on the stomach after a runaway horse and sleigh right through the Christmas display.

On horses is no age limit despite the size and speed but you build a go-kart or a mini scooter for kids, with handlebar and brake, and the police will then give you a ticket. Parents may lose their drivers license, even if they are just driving home on the land or in the woods.

Putting kids on a horse and send them out in traffic is legal. I would probably guess that it is easier to operate a moped, karting, quad or snowmobile than a large, easily frightened horse in traffic.

  It would be nice to see a trotting horse that meets a fire truck with flashing blue lights and sirens blaring but the driver probably waving enough and cabins will with his fists as usual.

 

Recommendation from an insurance company ?!
So here it is the insurance company Agria page

“In hopeless situations, it is often best to try and get out of the carriage before the horse gained momentum. It is best done by simultaneously swing over both legs in the same direction and slip off the wagon with rear-facing. However, one should remember that a kusklös carriage with runaway horse is a major risk factor in traffic. Therefore, one should at all costs try to prevent accidents of this kind occur. ”

In other words. Just  abandon the vehicle, if it runs on a car is the car owner’s fault anyway. Kind of like if you get full throttle lock on your car  you just open the door, jump out and hope for the best.

Jan Silén.